All 10 Uses of
brief
in
The Return of the King
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- None shall hinder your coming to me at any time, save only in my brief hours of sleep.†
Chpt 5.1
- There they were to lie and rest for a brief while and take counsel.†
Chpt 5.2 *
- It was the sunset-hour, but the great pall had now stretched far into the West, and only as it sank at last into the Sea did the Sun escape to send out a brief farewell gleam before the night, even as Frodo saw it at the Cross-roads touching the head of the fallen king.†
Chpt 5.4
- In them lies our brief hope, for in one thing only is the enemy still poorly provided: he has few horsemen.†
Chpt 5.4
- Wild cries broke out, and there was some clash of arms, but it was brief.†
Chpt 5.5
- Though your service to him was brief, it should be a memory glad and honourable to the end of your days.†
Chpt 5.8
- For a while they walked and talked, rejoicing for a brief space in peace and rest under the morning high up in the windy circles of the City.†
Chpt 5.9
- The hours passed in a weary stumbling trudge with a few brief halts.†
Chpt 6.2
- There was a brief red flame that flickered under the clouds and died away.†
Chpt 6.3
- A brief vision he had of swirling cloud, and in the midst of it towers and battlements, tall as hills, founded upon a mighty mountain-throne above immeasurable pits; great courts and dungeons, eyeless prisons sheer as cliffs, and gaping gates of steel and adamant: and then all passed.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).